Highly integrated and tunable RF front ends for reconfigurable multiband transceivers: A tutorial

H Darabi, A Mirzaei, M Mikhemar - IEEE Transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Architectural and circuit techniques to integrate the RF front end passive components,
namely the SAW filters and duplexers that are traditionally implemented off chip, are …

A blocker-tolerant, noise-cancelling receiver suitable for wideband wireless applications

D Murphy, H Darabi, A Abidi, AA Hafez… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new wideband receiver architecture is proposed that employs two separate passive-mixer-
based downconversion paths, which enables noise cancelling, but avoids voltage gain at …

A passive mixer-first receiver with digitally controlled and widely tunable RF interface

C Andrews, AC Molnar - IEEE Journal of solid-state circuits, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A software-defined radio (SDR) receiver with baseband programmable RF bandpass filter
(BPF) and complex impedance match is presented. The passive mixer-first architecture used …

Implications of passive mixer transparency for impedance matching and noise figure in passive mixer-first receivers

C Andrews, AC Molnar - … Transactions on Circuits and Systems I …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a class of passive mixer-first, LNA-less receivers is analyzed in depth.
Quadrature passive mixers are shown to present the impedance of their baseband port to …

64-QAM 60-GHz CMOS transceivers for IEEE 802.11 ad/ay

R Wu, R Minami, Y Tsukui, S Kawai… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents 64-quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) 60-GHz CMOS
transceivers with four-channel bonding capability, which can be categorized into a one …

A 65 nm CMOS quad-band SAW-less receiver SoC for GSM/GPRS/EDGE

A Mirzaei, H Darabi, A Yazdi, Z Zhou… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A quad-band 2.5 G receiver is designed to replace the front-end SAW filters with on-chip
bandpass filters and to integrate the LNA matching components, as well as the RF baluns …

Architectural evolution of integrated M-phase high-Q bandpass filters

A Mirzaei, H Darabi, D Murphy - IEEE Transactions on Circuits …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
-phase bandpass filters (BPFs) are analyzed, and variations of the structure are proposed.
For values of that are integer multiples of 4, the conventional-phase BPF structure is …

Rate gain region and design tradeoffs for full-duplex wireless communications

E Ahmed, AM Eltawil… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we analytically study the regime in which practical full-duplex systems can
achieve larger rates than an equivalent half-duplex systems. The key challenge in practical …

A 40 nm CMOS 0.4–6 GHz receiver resilient to out-of-band blockers

J Borremans, G Mandal, V Giannini… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A highly-linear software-defined radio operating from 400 MHz to 6 GHz is presented, with
the purpose of removing any dedicated filtering at the antenna. Very high resilience to out-of …

Unified Frequency-Domain Analysis of Switched-Series- Passive Mixers and Samplers

MCM Soer, EAM Klumperink… - IEEE transactions on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A wide variety of voltage mixers and samplers are implemented with similar circuits
employing switches, resistors, and capacitors. Restrictions on duty cycle, bandwidth, or …